Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-28
State 11epG.


The Fair Haven public library, about
to open. contains 100 volumes.
DR.. Il. II. Hoskins of Newport is to
write agricultural articles for the Rural
Vermonter.
Waterbury Center has within radius
of mile from its postofiice % persons
over 70 years old.
The New England Fire Insurance COM
pany of Rutland has elected l.. W. Red
ington, president and c. Parmeter, secre-
tary.
DR.. r. c. Jene of East Corinth has re-
ceived check from Washington for
S5,9O0.60 back pay and So per month
pension.
X. j. Coffey, superintendent of the
soldiers home, has received two applca-
tons for admission and five letters of in
quiry.
Rev. DR.. George B. Stafford of Brook
Ign, n. y, formerly of Burlington, has
received call to Congregational church
in Ellihart, Ind.
Mrs. Martha Brooks of st. Adams has
received pension arrears of $3.50. Her
SON. a captain in the Seventh Vermont.
was killed in 1868.
Mrs. F. w. johnson of Vernon made
2204 pounds of butter from January |.
1856, to January l, 1887, none of which
brought less than % cents a pound.
DR.. w. +. Forest of New York city has
given the university of Vermont 500 for
prizes in elocution. DR.. Forest was grad
uated from the university in the class of
81.
Gov Ormsbee and Department Com
mander Blodgett attended the meeting of
Stannard Post G.. a. r., at Burlington on
Friday night. They congratulated the
post on its prosperity.
A Quechee boy who was whipped in
school was Respondent because his pa
rents sided with the teacher. and ran
away, the other evening. He was found
half frozen in a barn, and gladly return
ed home.
Burlington baseball men are pleased
with the prospects of the formation of a
league, to include clubs from the Cham
plain valley towns. The Burlington
Athletic association is said to be ready to
join such a league.
Gov. Ormsbee has postponed to April
Is the visit which the Vermont monu-
ment commissioners had intended to
make Gettysburg on the 9th inst. Deep
snow covers Southern Pennsylvania, the
governor is informed.
\ number of prominent vermonters.
including Col. John b. Mead of Ran
dolph, Hon. Nelson Gay of Gaysvile and
Capt. II. n. Bruce of Barnard, are pre-
pairing to plant large New England
colony in Dakota in the spring
Meagher, the murderer of Charles
Hawks, whom he pushed from roof at
Bennington some weeks ago, il supposed
to be hiding near that place, and it is
thought that if the $500 reward were in
creased the murderer would be found.
The Rutland County Agricultural So
ciety has chosen these principal officers ::
President, Jesse l.. Billings of Rutland ;
first vice-president, Redfield Proctor of
Proctor; second yice-president, :. l..
Griffith of Dandy; secretary, c. c. Pierce
of Clarendon.
Norwich university, founded by Capt.
Alden Plastridge in 1916 at Norwich. and
located at Mortified since lsG5, has a
creditable record in the civil war.
Among its graduates are cOunted the
names of II generals, - colonies, 40 field
officers, 50 captains and l43 lieutenants.
The first carload of onyx from the
quarry in California owned by Messrs. j.
b. Reynolds and Guy II. Reynolds, ar
lived in Fair Haven, the other day, TO be
worked into tops for fine tables. Nine
other carloads are expected soon, and it
cost $1,000 to ship the lot from California.
The onyx is worth about so a foot.
Philip Landigan was found wandering
about the streets at Waterbury saturday
He was without friends or money, and
begged to be taken in and sent back to
Fort Preble, near Portland, from which
, he deserted in September, 1885. Select
man Eugene Moody took him to Fort
Warren, Boston Harbor, Monday.
John Garland, 81, was discharged last
had been serving five-years' sentence
for horse-stealing. He mad served one
: eight-years' term in Vermont before this
beside a term in Connecticut and three
nemora, n. Y. He has spent altogether
: 30 years in prison.